Anne Sexton Quotes

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Sex, Feeling, Saying, Writing)

"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Moderation, Poets, Saints)

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Soul)

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Poison)

"Need is not quite belief."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Belief)

"I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran."
- Anne Sexton

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: God, Beer, Voice)

"Even without wars, life is dangerous."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Life)

"Death's in the good-bye."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Death)

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Joy)

"In a dream you are never eighty."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Dream)

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Father)